Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-05-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Small pox fingers in New York.
Connecticut has ten living ex.Gov.


"A nine foot coal vein has been
struck near the surface at Greeley, Col.
An average egg weig s about I 900
grains, divided as follows; Shell lot,
white 604, and yolk 2S9.
An average election campaign in
New York city costs the candidates or
their supporters about $500, 600.
The sea serpent has got around into
the Pacific, and is row reported from
points on the California coast.
Full grown figs Of this seasons
growth are reported to be on the
rees at San Luis Obispo, California.
The Alhambra, the great London
music hall, is said TO have paid 46 per
cent. In the last six months In diYid.
ends.
"A large lobster was caught in Mon
terey Bay, California, recently, the first
that has ever been known in that To-
eality.
Before the wedding day she was
dear and he her treasure; but after
wards she became dearer and he treas
uIer.
There have been liz murders COM
mitted In EdgeGeld county, South
Carolina, during the last thirteen
years.
The 81, GOO school teachers of New
York last year received an average
salary of S70l IN cities and S26l In
towns.
"A Pennsylvania magistrate, who
had united 1000 couples in marriage.
died recently with all his SINS upon his
head.
The light on the Bartholdi Liberty
Statue, it is stated officially, Is visible
% miles beyond Sandy Hook on clear
evening.
"A French Canadian is seriously Ill
at the home Of his daughter in Paw
tucket, Rhode Island, il is claimed,
lC9 years old.
In Cuba soup is made OF plantsln
sometimes dried and ground to a pow
ier. and sometimes used fresh and
green for puree.
THEIFTY.-Mrs. Oaks, of Wheat
land, Mich, has pared 1450 bushels Of
apples this winter, besides attending to
her household work.
"A South Carolina hunter recently
shot buck whose head was white and
whose horns were short and curved ike
the horns of q goat.
"A HindOo made a wager that he
would gaze at the sun for ten hours.
At the end OF the seventh hour he fell
down in tit and died.
In the New York sub-treasury
~, 600 silver dollars passed through
The hands of the clerks in one day y.
.he purpose OF redemption.
u western man, after losing all his
money, put up his wife as stake In a
game OF poker. But his run OF bad
luck continued. He failed to lose her.
A bill prohibiting the taking on OF
more passengers than seats can be pro-
vided for on the street cars Of New
YORK, IS before the Legislature at
Albany.
An Oregon man who pointed q
gun at a woman ''in fun" and killed
her last month at Albion. in tha.
state, has been convicted of man
slaughter.
Two colOred ladies managed TO call
out the Atlantic City fire deparement
the other evening by indulging In q
light, with lighted coal oil lamps as the
weapons.
"A yacht race, to be sailed In June
over a course extending twenty miles
TO windward outside sandy Hook, Is TO
be for the novel stakes OF pint pot
,uli of gold dollars.
San Diego, California, has one OF
he wISest Cinnamon in the world. He
s "A lauldryman, and he has kept An
running in the local
'apers for fifteen years.
burglars blew open the safe in
Jersey City store the other nigff
sixty dollars, blown from the saf, ly
he force OF the explosion, were 70. d
" a clerk lying on the floor. Nothin..
vas missing.
Greece, Professor Seymour, of Yale
University, says, is having "boom.-
Athens, which has increased in pOpula.
ion from 10000 to 100000 during the
entuTy, now has city railways and
team railroads.
For "a hours increasingly, and
With no other refreshment than some
eef tea and an occasional cigar, Cape
'olony artist. named Woodcock, played
be piano at Baberton recently, '6nish-
lg in capital condition"
"A prisoner in Louisville who es-
aped the death pena. y by Stimulating
badness and was acquitted on a second
nal by the same means is now unre-
5rved IN his chuckles over the way in
7hich he deceived the jury.
"A gust of wind blew a passenger
II tram on the Eastern road, near the -
lystlc river, Us he was attempting to
ass from one car to another while the
Eain was going at full speed, but he
scaped serious injury, as he Was tossed
ltO deep snow bank.
"A visitor to the penItentiary a.
anesville, Ohio, while casually lnok-
lg through the institution recently.
lscoyeTed in one Of the prisoners
r0ther OF his who had ran away from
ONE at the age OF seven years, and
as supposed by the family to have
cen drowned.
Ice taken from the Hudson river
- OSuA oUL4CSeCl " q SClIco VI
nents by DIR. Pruden, OF New York,
ho says he has found as much as
l@ living bacteria in a cubic cent?
letre OF one specimen. He wants the
tate health authorities 10 take the
latter in charge.
Bullets hays been established at
il way stations on the Orleans tFrench)
allway, under orders from the direc-
ors, and good meals of meat, vegeta-
les, cheese. bread and wine, are to be
at q cost of II. so. 80 cents
our money at each of them.
"A young man at San Rafael, CAL,
Tho heard some one la his room on .
ecent night, called 70 the intruder to
xplain the oaase OF his visit, or he
Tould shoot. Receiving no reply, he
Fsd ball from his revolver and
his deaf and dumb aunt,
ut fortunately not very sarious